Improved wooden wall for buildings



duaal sans JOSEPH BUSSER,

OF TROY, OHIO.

Letters .Patent No. 91,518, dated June 22, 1869.

IIVIPRO'V'ED WOODEN' WALL FOR BUILDINGS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom z't fm1/y concern Bc it known that I, JOSEPH Busser., of Troy, in the county of Miami, and State of Ohio, have invented .i a new and improved Mode of Constructing Wooden Walls for Buildings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this speciiication, in which Figure 1 is a view of the inner side of my improved wooden wall, showing laths, or strips of wood or metal fastened to it. Y

Figure 2 is 'avertical cross-section of the wall when plastered.

Figure 3 is a view of the inner side of a wooden wall diiering slightly from that shown in.igs. 1 and 2.

Figure 4 is a cross-section, taken vertically through this wall, plastered.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a portion of a chambered wall, with dovetailed tenons on its inner surface.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several gures.

0n the 19th day of November, 1867, Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me for an improved method of constructing wooden walls, of planks laid iiatwise upon each other, and arranged so as to leave ribs andgrooves upon the inner side of the wall. The outer edges of the planks were bevelled,

.so as to give t0 the external vsurface of this wall the appearance of clapboards, siding, or weather-boards, and to shed water properly. Y I

In carrying into practice this mode of making walls, I have found it objectionable, on account of the impracticability of making plastering adhere to their ribbed and grooved surfaces.

The nature of the invention which I have made, to remedy the objection above stated, consists in so constrnctinga wooden wall of planks laid atwise, that its interior surface will present interlocking spaces which will receive the plaster used to cover this surface, and

aff'ordmeans for permanent-ly holding the plaster, said planks being bevelled on their outer edges, so as to give the wall the 'appearance of being clapboarded, and to canse it to shed water freely, as will be hereinafter explained.

The invention also consists in constructing such wall of alternate wide planks and narrow strips, arranged so as to leave horizontal chambers between the wide pieces or planks, in which chanibers sand or other suitable substance is packed, for rendering the wall solid, and impervious to air and moisture, as Will be hereinafter explained.

To enable others skilled in the art to understand my invention, I will describe its construction and opera- In the accompanying drawings, igs. l and 2,1 have represented a portion of a wooden wall which is composed of alternate layers of wide planks, A, and nar;

row strips, B B', secured together, so as to form horizout-al chambers, O, which are lledwith line sand, or other suitable material, which will not only solidify the wall, but will also pack the joints between the planksV A and the interposed strips B B', so as to exclude air and moisture.

rlhe planks and strips B A have their outer edges bevelled, as shown at a a, for giving a neat finish to the external surface of the w'all, and also for shedding water from the joints or seams, as shown in iig. 2.

The planks A andstrips B have their inner edges grooved, so as to leave ribs, or tongues, b, upon these edges, as shown in figs. l and 2.

Diagonally across these ribs and grooves, wooden laths, or narrow stn'ps, c, of metal, are nailed, and a1'- ranged in lines parallel to one another, at suitable distances apart.

1f used alone, the grooves and ribs on the inner surface of the wall would not permanently support the plastering D, but with the addition ofthe strips c, arranged as described, prevent the plaster from becoming loose, in consequence ofthe latter working in the spaces between the strips c and the backs ofthe grooves, and thus keeping itself to the wall.

Instead of using the strips c, in combination with the horizontal ribs b, the baltldovetail tenons b', shown in gs. 2 and 3, may be adopted. These tenons are formed, by suitable machinery, upon the inner edges of the planks A', or upon the planks' A and inner strips B', and aiord horizontal.under-bevelled grooves, which will receive the plaster D, and allow it to attach itselfl firmly tothe wall.

In the figures last referred to, the planks A are all of a uniform width, and their outer edges are bevelled in the same manner as the planks A and strips B above described.

I consider the ldovetail or under-bevelled tenons b', as the equivalent of the perpendiculanfaced tenons b, combined with the oblique strips c, inasmuch as both plans afford interlocking supports for holding the plastering firmly to the wall.

Having described my invention,

What I claim as new, and,desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The construction of the inner surface of a plank wall, which has its planks laid iiatwise of tenons b, and crossing strips c, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The bevelled and grooved planks A, in combinar tion with the interposed strips B B and horizontal chambers G, substantiallyras and for the purposes described.

JOSEPH BUSSER.

Witnesses:

W. F. Ross, DAVIS BAND. 

